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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 358 173 UD 029 143 AUTHOR Rester, Donald TITLE an Instructional Guide Concerning the Highly Successful Teachi DOCUMENT RESUME ED 358 173 UD 029 143 AUTHOR Rester, Donald TITLE An Instructional Guide Concerning the Highly Successful Teaching & Motivating Practices of Jaime Escalante for the Escalante Math Project at East Los Angeles College. INSTITUTION Los Angeles County Office of Education, Downey, CA. SPONS AGENCY ARCO Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.; East Los Angeles Coll., Calif.; Ford Foundation, New York, N.Y.; National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE Ma: 93 NOTE 133p.; Parts of this paper were presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Evaluation Association (Washington, DC, October 18-20, 1990), the California Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, November 1990), the American Evaluation Association (Seattle, WA, November 5-7, 1992), and the California Educational Research Association Conference (San Francisco, CA, November 1992). PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Use Teaching Guides (For Teacher) (052) Reports Research/Technical (143) Tests/Evaluation instruments (160) EDRS PRICE MFOI/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Academic Achievement; Curriculum F.aluation; Educationally Disadvantaged; High SC-ools; *High School Students; *Hispanic Americans; Instructional Materials; Interviews; *Mathematics Instruction; Minority Group Children; Program Descriptions; Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Student Motivation; Teaching Guides; Teaching Methods; Urban Education IDENTIFIERS *Escalante Jaime; Jaime Escalante Math Program; *Los Angeles City Schools CA ABSTRACT This instructional guide, or.e product ofa large -scale research project on Jaime Escalante and his Mathematics and Science Program, describes the teaching and motivatingstrategies that he uses to bring about high academic achievementamong poor minority urban youth in Los Angeles (California). The firstpart of five describes a pilot test in whicha colleague and an administrator who have worked with and observed Escalante rateda list of successful techniques according to the degree to which they explained Escalante's teaching success. Part 2 describes theresponses of senior high school students who had been Escalante's studentsfor 3 or 4 years to a similar questionnaire. Part 3 shows the results ofa similar rating process by several of Escalante's colleagues, which found a 7 percent level of agreement between students and colleagues. Part 4, the longest section, contains the taped transcription of an interview with Escalante designed to determine whether or not he agreed Yith his students' ratings of his teaching techniques and to ask whether his students had left out anything. Part 5 discusses the study's findings. Extensive appendixes contain information on the Jaime Escalante Mathematics and ScienceProgram, questions from the pilot test, questions from the other phasesof the study, student responses, abstracts of the paper, correspondence, and the study contract. Contains 29references. (a) U.S. DEPARTMENT "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE Office of Educational Of EDUCATION THIS Research andImprovement MATERIAL NIBS BEENGRANTED BY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES CENTER (ERIC)INFORMATION 14 do d This documenthas been reproduced ecteved from the as onginating a person or orgenization 0 Minor changes 4 have been made /tic reproduction Quality to Improve Flotilla ca sew TO THE EDUCATIONAL ment do notor opinions slated inthis docu- ncessanty represent RESOURCES OERI positionor policy official INFORMATION Cr1TER(ERIC) AN INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE Concerning the Highly Successful Teaching & Motivating '2ractices of Jaime Escalante for The Escalante Math Project at East Los Angeles College Prepared by Donald Kester, Ph.D. Consultant, Program Evaluation & Research Division of Educational Support Services Educational Program Evaluation Los Angeles County Office of Education r An Instructional Guide Concerning the Highly Successful Teaching and Motivating Practices of Jaime Escalante Prepared for The National Science Foundation Washington, D.C. The ARCO Foundation Los Angeles, California The Ford Motor Company and Foundation Dearborn, Michigan _ and- East Los Angeles College Monterey Park, California by Donald L. Kester, Ph.D. Consultant, Program Evaluation and Research Division of Educational Support Services Los Angeles County Office of Education Downey, California (310) 922-6415 March 1993 The Preface and Parts 1 and 2 of this paper were presented atthe annual conference of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) held in Washington,D.C. in November 1990 and at the California Educational ResearchAssociation (CERA) Conference held in San Diego in November 1990. The remainder of this paper waspresented at the Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association held in Seattle,Washington in November 1992 and at the California Educational ResearchAssociation (CERA) Conference in San Francisco in November 1992. Table of Contents Preface 1 Part 1 - The Pilot Test 10 Part 2 - Judgments by Escalante's Calculus Students 17 Part 3 - Judgments by Escalante's Colleagues 23 Part 4 - Interview with Jaime Escalante 28 Discussion 49 Caveats 66 Concerns About Validity 76 Conclusion 79 References 82 Appendix A Item 1 Project Description 85 Item 2 Project Staff 88 Item 3 Project Students 89 Appendix B Questions to Key Informants 90 Appendix C The Last Tier 92 Appendix D Questionnaire to Escalante's Calculus Students 96 Appendix E Responses of Calculus Students To One Question 101 Appendix F Responses of Calculus Students to Two Open-ended Questions 103 Appendix G Student Responses to Three Questions 105 Appendix H Abstract of Paper Presentations 106 Appendix I Dr. Michael Scriven's Letter 107 Appendix J Jaime Escalante's Contract 108 PREFACE Introduction, Overview, and Acknowledgments Introduction In November 1988 East Los Angeles College(ELAC), acting on behalf of a private sector partnership, submitted a grant application to the National ScienceFoundation (NSF). The proposed three year project was entitled, "The JaimeEscalante Mathematics and Science Program." According to the abstract, the Escalante project wouldaddress: "...the national need to increase the pool of applicants tomathematics based university programs and to increase the numberof well-trained mathematics instructors. (Additionally, the project would fund) .. .the expansion of the highly successful East Los Angeles College Advanced PlacementCalculus Program to include a second local high school, (and establish) ... asupporting mathematics program for three feeder junior highschools and their six feeder elementary schools." (ELAC, 1988, NSF Grant Application, p. 3.) George Madrid of East Los Angeles College was to be theproject's principal investigator. As project director, George would be assisted by Paul Powersand Dr. Kevin Galvin, both identified as project counselors. These three constituted the entirenon-teaching professional project staff. The project envisioned the training of fifteen teachers bythe "nationally acclaimed master teacher, Jaime Escalante." (Ibid.) It was hoped that with the addedfunding requested, the successes of the East Los Angeles College Advanced Placement CalculusProgram could be "multiplied in many directions" to facilitate even greater gains by an even larger groupof inner-city minority students. (Ibid.) Over the more than three year period (1989-1991+)the overall project cost would be approximately $1 million. Of that, East Los Angeles Collegewould contribute approximately 36 percent, the National Science Foundation approximately 37 percent,the ARCO Foundation approximately 15 percent, and the Ford Motor Companyapproximately 12 percent. The NSF grant application contained thefollowing language regarding the preparationof a "Program Manual" or "Instructional Guide." prepared that documents the "... anInstructional Guide (Program Manual) will be body of techniques that make up theteaching and motivating methods of Jaime Escalante. .. The primary contributor of materialwill be Escalante . .. The product intended primarily for in-house instruction,will have value for the replication of the program in other communities. .." (ELAC, 1988, p. 21.) This document is hereby submitted tosatisfy the requirement to produce anInstructional Guide. In addition, you are encouraged toread the article entitled, "The Jaime EscalanteMath Program" which first appeared in the Journalof Negro Education, volume 59, number 3(summer 1990). The authors were Jaime Escalante andJack Dirmann, associate director of theFoundation for Advancements in Science and Education(FASE). The article was copyrighted in 1990 andlater reprinted under separate cover (1990) by theNational Education Association (NEA). In a real sense, the journal article beganand ended with Jaime Escalante. In hisinitial statement in the reprinted article, he wrote: "In recent years, I have beendeluged with questions from interestedteachers, community leaders, and parents about my successin teaching mathematics to poor minority children. I am not a theoretician; myexpertise is in the classroom and my first commitment is to my students.Nonetheless, I am willing to share my opinions on this subject in thehope that they might be helpful to otherprofessionals in the I am hopeful this article will provide answers.I have called field of education. of this upon my colleague, JackDirmann. ...to assist in the preparation manuscript." (Escalante and Dirmann,1990, p. 1.) Since Mr. Dirmann's role was to assist,it seems clear that the primarycontributor to the journal article was Jaime Escalante. As will be seen,Mr. Escalante was the primary contributor tothis Instructional
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